Newcastle Interest In Spurs’ Tom Huddlestone

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

1:12pm Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

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There were lots of reports yesterday indicating that Newcastle United were interested in Spurs 22 year-old midfielder Tom Huddlestone, who is an England Under-21 International, and is also more than useful in central defense.

Tom Huddlestone – Newcastle seem interested

Former Spurs coach and Newcastle assistant manager Chris Hughton has already recommended Tom to Joe Kinnear, and it looks like Newcastle tried to sign the former Derby star in January on loan, though the end of the season.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp rejected Newcastle’s approach, probably becasue he still has his own relegation worries, but Newcastle may well be back again in the summer for Huddlestone, as long as the club can stay in the Premier League.

The news is that Kevin Nolan was signed after Spurs rejected Newcastle’s approach, so that probably all happened following our 2-1 defeat at Man City, when we lost Joey Barton to injury again.

Huddlestone is a good player, but doesn’t seem to have much pace, but he combats that with his considerable skill on the ball. And of course he is more than decent in central defense too, and that is another plus for the youngster, from Newcastle’s viewpoint.

Tom is not happy that he spends so much time on the bench at Spurs, and he will likely want to move on in the summer, but there will be a number of clubs interested in the talented youngster.

Hughton of course worked with Huddlestone at Tottenham during Martin Jol’s management reign there from 2004 until 2007, and Chris believes Tom is an excellent player and could do a job at Newcastle.

But we wouldn’t mind one little bit if Newcastle end up signing Huddlestone, since he’s without doubt a good young player and could do very well on Tyneside.

Tom played 88 times for Derby County before signing for Spurs for £3M in 2005, and has so far played about 70 times for the London side with 4 goals.

He has played 30 times with 4 goals for the England Under-21 side, and will likely partner captain Steven Taylor in the upcoming Under-21 European Championships this summer in Sweden.

find it hard to even think about players coming in while were in this mess its like tempting fate are something the lad might be a good player for us if we stop in the league but we have to do that before we make plans

ronaldeano- You do make me chuckle. Your going down with the baggies and boro. Surely even you are not stupid enough to think we are still involved. Come and talk to me after your next 3 games and we will see how confident youy are.

sirjasontoon- haha. Its called ambition. So you wouldnt like to see newcastle win the carling cup? dont make me laugh. And you would love jenas back at newcastle. I guess your going to tell me he wouldnt get in your midfield.haha. What a clown you are who knows nowt about football.hahahaha…ha

Benny gives this blog a different touch 🙂 I think ed should pay him little bit for this. Benny makes each post interesting. But still for me hard to imagine , a spurs fan commenting on every blog post on Newcastle blog. Hummmm Looks like if we survive Benny will CONVERT. 🙂

Well if that is what you call ambition Benny boy you must be off your rocker..it is wasting money on players that don’t give a toss about your club…London is the Attraction not spurs mate..you have been biggest joke in london for years matey.

Proves a point BT you have no control over the output from your brain (is it fair to describe the mass of matter in your head as a brain?) Would you be prepared to do it (should, sorry shoot yourself in the head) publicly at St James in front of the massed Toon fans when we stay up. It’ll be a double celebration for us.

sirjasontoon- I cant believe what i am reading. We had 2 5th place finishes then won a trophy and played in another final this year. Why do you think players used to sign for newcastle? It must have been the warm weather and wonderful views of the angel of the north( a complete monstrosity).

Its just misplaced jealousy from you i am afraid. We are not a threat to you as you are so far behind us in terms of your history and your current set up. You should be jealous of your neighbours sunderland who have a better structured club and a similar history of winning trophies over the past 50 years. ie. nothing.. Your only glad jenas left because he broke your heart by mocking the club you love.

We’d be better off having Nicky Butt mentor someone for the next year (or more if he goes into coaching) like Mohamed Diame or Artur Borysiuk who are very promising young defensive midfielders and already have a key attribute nailed down – positioning.

sirjasontoon- Newcastle is the biggest circus in town. Who else would pay silly money for owen then pay him 100 grand a week to then let him walk for free at the end of his contract. I love newcastle!!

sirjasontoon- or you could always just swap bent for martins as your manager wanted to do. You keep forgetting you will be in the fizzy pop league next season so you wont be able to attract players on the fringes of the national team. You cant even attract them now for gods sake.

As for the angel of the north. We have big ben, houses of parliment etc,etc,etc. You have a rusty statue which is hardly the statue of liberty.

Houses of parliament, mmm, not the best example, isn’t that where Superbrown works (ok not the most accurate word to describe his time there) at saving the world, and oppressing the rest of us. I must admit I laughed at your last sentence, in a bloody cheek sort of way.

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